Professional Development

Professional Development & Soft Skills Training

Communication, emotional intelligence, and career skills for employees who are ready to grow — and teams that want to perform at a higher level.

Professional Development & Soft Skills Training
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🎓 HRCI Approved Provider
SHRM Preferred Provider
📍 the Southeast HR Specialists
👩 500+ Managers Trained

Technical Skills Get People Hired. Soft Skills Determine Whether They Stay.

The employees who struggle with communication, conflict, time management, or professional presence don’t just underperform individually — they create friction on every team they’re part of. Performance reviews identify these gaps constantly. Rarely does anyone actually address them.

Catapult HR professional development programs target the interpersonal and business skills that drive individual effectiveness and team performance — built for immediate application, not theoretical concepts employees nod at and forget.

Who This Is For

  • Individual contributors ready to grow but lacking specific interpersonal skills
  • Teams with recurring communication breakdowns or unresolved conflict patterns
  • Customer-facing employees who need stronger service and stakeholder communication
  • New managers transitioning from individual contributor to leadership roles
  • HR teams building a culture of continuous development as a retention strategy

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Clearer, more effective communication across the team — written and verbal
  • Higher emotional intelligence — employees who adapt to situations instead of reacting
  • Conflict handled at the team level before it requires HR involvement
  • Stronger time management and personal productivity habits that stick
  • Employees who feel genuinely invested in — and are significantly more likely to stay

What’s Included

  • +Business communication and professional writing
  • +Emotional intelligence and self-awareness
  • +Conflict resolution and de-escalation
  • +Time management and personal productivity
  • +Customer service and stakeholder management
  • +Collaboration and cross-functional effectiveness
Format
Workshop / On-Demand LMS
Duration
Half-Day / Full-Day / Self-Paced
Audience
All Employee Levels
Delivery
On-Site / Virtual / Blended
Recognized & Approved By
HRCI

HRCI Approved

PHR, SPHR, GPHR Credit Eligible

SHRM

SHRM Preferred Provider

SHRM-CP & SHRM-SCP Eligible

Trustpilot 5.0 Stars

Rated by HR Professionals

NC
SC

Regional HR Experts

Serving the Southeast Employers

Soft Skills That Show Up in Hard Results

The ROI of professional development shows up in retention, performance, and culture.

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Reduced Turnover

Employees who feel their organization invests in their development are 15-34% more likely to stay, according to LinkedIn Learning research.

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Higher Performance Ratings

Teams with strong communication and collaboration skills consistently outperform peers across productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics.

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Better Culture

Conflict handled well, emotional intelligence practiced daily, and clear communication across teams creates a workplace people want to be part of.

Client testimonial

“We used Catapult’s soft skills workshop as part of our all-hands offsite. The conflict resolution module surfaced things we’d been talking around for months. Three months later, the team dynamics are genuinely different — and measurably more productive.”

— COO, Technology Services Company, Raleigh, NC
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about this program — answered by our industry-experienced professional facilitators.

Is this training appropriate for employees at all levels?
Yes. We design programs for entry-level employees, mid-career professionals, and senior leaders — with content calibrated to the context each group operates in. An entry-level customer service rep and a senior VP need very different versions of ‘professional communication,’ and we build those distinctions into the curriculum.
Can these programs be paired with manager development training?
Absolutely — and this is often the most effective combination. When managers and their teams take complementary programs simultaneously, the common framework accelerates behavioral change across the whole team. We frequently design combined programs for organizations doing full-department development initiatives.
How do you handle sensitive topics like emotional intelligence or conflict in a group setting?
Our facilitators are industry-experienced professional facilitators with deep experience in facilitated learning — not just subject matter experts. Sensitive topics are approached with structure, psychological safety protocols, and clear norms set at the start of each session. We’ve run EQ and conflict programs for everyone from frontline employees to executive teams without significant pushback.
Is on-demand eLearning available for soft skills topics?
Yes. Several of our most popular soft skills modules — communication fundamentals, conflict resolution, and time management — are available as self-paced on-demand content through the TopClass LMS. These work well as pre-work before a group workshop or as standalone development resources your employees can access on their own schedule.

Invest in the Skills That Actually Drive Performance

Let’s identify which programs would have the highest impact for your team right now.

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